Medicine and CultureMacmillan, 1996 M11 15 - 204 pages A classic comparative study of medicine and national culture, Medicine and Culture shows us that while doctors regard themselves as servants of science, they are often prisoners of custom. |
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Page xv
... caused a reorganization of the market . When health care providers get paid per patient , rather than per act , the financial incentive is to do as little as possible , thus putting the providers in direct conflict with what patients ...
... caused a reorganization of the market . When health care providers get paid per patient , rather than per act , the financial incentive is to do as little as possible , thus putting the providers in direct conflict with what patients ...
Page xvi
... caused us to consider these two metaphors of disease causation simultaneously : the AIDS virus comes from outside the body and attacks , yet it has made Americans more aware of the crucial role that internal defenses play in keeping one ...
... caused us to consider these two metaphors of disease causation simultaneously : the AIDS virus comes from outside the body and attacks , yet it has made Americans more aware of the crucial role that internal defenses play in keeping one ...
Page xvii
... Americans are likely to search for a viral or allergic cause . Not too long after Medicine and Culture came out , a British psychiatrist , Dr. Simon Wessely , decided to look at the evidence for Foreword to the Owl Books Edition xvii.
... Americans are likely to search for a viral or allergic cause . Not too long after Medicine and Culture came out , a British psychiatrist , Dr. Simon Wessely , decided to look at the evidence for Foreword to the Owl Books Edition xvii.
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... caused an intense outcry : a congressional committee convened to investigate the NCI committee that had lifted its recommendation , criticizing it for , among other things , relying too heavily on data obtained from tests on foreign ...
... caused an intense outcry : a congressional committee convened to investigate the NCI committee that had lifted its recommendation , criticizing it for , among other things , relying too heavily on data obtained from tests on foreign ...
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... caused us to consider these two metaphors : Martin F. Sha- piro et al . , “ Residents ' Experiences in , and Attitudes Toward , the Care of Persons with AIDS in Canada , France , and the United States , " Jour- nal of the American ...
... caused us to consider these two metaphors : Martin F. Sha- piro et al . , “ Residents ' Experiences in , and Attitudes Toward , the Care of Persons with AIDS in Canada , France , and the United States , " Jour- nal of the American ...
Contents
Is Medicine International? | 15 |
Culture Bias in Medical Science | 23 |
France Cartesian Thinking and the Terrain | 35 |
West Germany The Lingering Influences of Romanticism | 74 |
Great Britain Economy Empiricism and Keeping the Upper Lip Stiff | 101 |
United States The Virus in the Machine | 124 |
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Page xxiii - ... percent of all contemporary clinical interventions are supported by objective scientific evidence that they do more good than harm. On the other hand, between 40 and 60 percent of all therapeutic benefits can be attributed to a combination of the placebo and Hawthorne effects, two code words for caring and concern, or what most people call "love.